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At long last after two-and-a-half years of negotiations in a painful process that can only be described as watching a slow-motion train wreck, a Brexit deal has been struck–a tentative one, at least. However,...

Sweden has ardently embraced cryptocurrencies ever since the inception as the country has been the largest FinTech hub in Europe and now streaming at the forefront of the cryptocurrency revolution. Well, as the country...

Venezuela, where bitcoin trading is at an all-time high and the socialist government has issued its own cryptocurrency amid record-breaking inflation and other economic woes, has been denied access to its own gold reserves by the Bank of England....

BitFury, a crypto mining company, has announced the closing of a private placement investment of $80 million, bringing the total funds raised by the firm to $170 million since its Series A round in 2014. The...

On Nov. 4, a Norwegian startup announced the launch of a new peer-to-peer marketplace called Bitruption. Similar to Localbitcoins, the Bitruption exchange plans to offer a format under which users around the world will...

Bitmain, the dominant bitcoin mining firm and the most valuable company in the cryptocurrency industry, has announced that it will release its next generation of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip miners this week. In...

IBM has filed a patent for a blockchain-based system which will prevent players of augmented reality games entering physical spaces that are undesirable. They cite as examples “high-risk locations, culturally sensitive locations, locations marked by property...

Cryptocurrency space strikes a lot of attention for its unusual volatility, that also poses considerable risk for extensive returns. On the risk perspective, arbitrage is the strategy that appears to be low-risk though. Arbitrage...

Every now and then a major news outlet gets carried away and reports that Bitcoin will consume all the world’s power. A conspiracy theorist might say that such stories are instigated by the international...